Originally Posted By: ADilla_Nevada
Tom isn't a wartime consigliere because he failed to see the play the Turk was making during the failed drug deal offer meeting. Geno would had quietly had more guys guarding the Don immediately after seeing Sonny's outburst at the meeting, because he shown a weakness in the Corleone's armor (greed) and knew that they would make a play to Sonny to by either trying to get him to killed his dad, or have somebody take out Vito and Sonny (hence Geno probably would had upped the security on both to make sure nobody got through.)


Everytime I read this, I wonder why a "smart and cunning" man like Vito himself would have needed a consigliere to make him realize this? Why couldn't he have found this out himself?

Sure, he was slipping. But he was still smart enough to warn Mike that the traitor in the family would be the one trying to arrange the meeting with Barzini....


"It was between the brothers Kay -- I had nothing to do with it."